Gregory Winfield
Canada Guide 2025
Band 3 : Pensions & Benefits
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About
Provided by Gregory Winfield
Practice Areas
Provides strategic legal advice with respect to retirement, health & welfare and other compensation plans. Recent focuses are on investments, DB plan freezes and innovative plan designs, governance and changes to retiree benefits. Advises on the treatment of benefit plans in M&A transactions, lending transactions and insolvencies; advises on private and public sector pension plans. Experience in litigating matters before pension regulatory authorities and provides pension expertise to McCarthy litigation team in pension class proceedings. Represented employer in connection with nation’s first Employee Life and Health Trust. Frequent speaker and writer on benefits topics, including Canadian contributor to first UNEP FI paper on ESG for Institutional Investors.
Career
Ontario, 1988
Chambers Review
Canada
Gregory Winfield of McCarthy Tétrault is a Toronto-based lawyer, who has many years' experience advising on pensions issues. His practice has a notable focus on pension investments, and he is regularly engaged by both universities and government pension funds.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Greg is an outstanding resource and brilliant mind, who is able to break down complex legislative requirements and apply them in a practical manner to the issue at hand."
"Greg is very knowledgeable, very responsive and extremely pleasant to work with."
"Greg is a seasoned pensions lawyer and it comes across in the guidance he provides. He has a significant level of experience and it feels like there is no issue he hasn't seen before."
"Greg is an outstanding resource and brilliant mind, who is able to break down complex legislative requirements and apply them in a practical manner to the issue at hand."
"Greg is very knowledgeable, very responsive and extremely pleasant to work with."
"Greg is a seasoned pensions lawyer and it comes across in the guidance he provides. He has a significant level of experience and it feels like there is no issue he hasn't seen before."
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